Media Bureau Dismisses Latest BeIN Carriage Complaint Against Comcast
BeIN Sports' latest carriage complaint against Comcast included an additional pleading without first asking the Media Bureau and it didn't show the circumstances that would allow the FCC to accept an otherwise-prohibited pleading, the bureau said in a docket 18-384…
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order Friday dismissing the complaint. It said though beIN included in the February complaint (see 1902060052) a new allegation of unreasonable refusal to deal that wasn't in its two 2018 complaints, the programmer should have made that claim in its second complaint since the allegation comes from the same set of facts as the second complaint. BeIN outside counsel didn't comment.